New. In 1979, a journalist met a murderer, MacDonald, and decided to write the story of his crime, claiming that it would work in his defence. However, the resulting story was an indictment of the crime and the mind of its perpatrator. This book tells of the lawsuit which followed in 1984. The suit was filed by MacDonald against the writer. The underlying narrative of betrayed love was told so convincingly that at the trial five out of six jurors were persuaded that a man who was serving three ...
The Webb family seem genetically disposed towards medicine. Don, the eldest brother, runs a small town pharmacy. Penny, the abused wife, neglectful mother and firebrand sister, is a doctor. And Jamie, the youngest son, has been self-medicating with heroin for longer than seems physically possible. When Jamie decides to move back to his native small town in New Zealand after a twenty year absence, he sets off a reaction in his dysfunctional family which has disastrous consequences.
Binding: P
Publisher: Granta Books
Date published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781862075665ISBN:1862075662
Description: New. Max, while grieving for his criminal girlfriend Jessie, slides into a drug-induced oblivion, his personal and professional descent assured. As he probes into Jessie's past, a sinister web of conspiracy is drawn around him, with a cast of international lawyers, UNO politicans and mass murderers. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Granta Books
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781862074576ISBN:1862074577
Description: "In The Kick, poet Richard Murphy has constructed, from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over the course of five decades, a unique memoir of his life and times. The book is a publishing event. Murphy writes about the most painfully delicate personal issues, including his own ambivalent sexuality, and he also has brilliant accounts of meetings and friendships with some of the most significant post-war writers-WH Auden, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, JR Ackerley, Laura Riding, Robert Graves, John ... Read More
Binding: P
Publisher: Granta Books
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781862074408ISBN:1862074402
Description: New. Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including her reflections on editing writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny and Brian Moore. She also provides an account of her own writing career, whcih includes the two critically-acclaimed works, "Instead of a Letter" and "After a Funeral". Read More
Edition: Main
Binding: P
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Date published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781861974372ISBN:186197437X
Description: A fascinating book that shows managers a new way to think about, and manage, companies-and how to succeed in the future. Andy Law is the founder and chairman of St Luke's, a successful advertising agency, and one of the most talked-about and studied companies in the world. Described by the prestigious Harvard Business Review as "the most frightening company on earth", and renowned for its innovative (bordering on experimental) management practices and thinking, St Luke's is viewed by many as ... Read More
Edition: Main
Binding: P
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781861973580ISBN:1861973586
Description: New. Love by Vatsyayana encapsulates the thinking of a time-honoured thinker. Writing in India in the fourth century AD, the Hindu sage Vatsyayana composed the Kama Sutra (or 'Rules of Love'), and this masterwork of sexual etiquette has since become both notorious and admired. With a brief outline of his life and achievements, this entertaining selection of short extracts from Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra presents his wisdom in an easily digestible form that is ideal for today's reader. Love will ... Read More
Binding: P
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Date published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780330487894ISBN:0330487892
Description: New. At the age of twenty-one, shy Rupert Bogarde fell in love with a nurse a great deal more worldly than he. Jacquie loved France and the couple moved there, married and bought a ruined chapel near Perpignan to turn into a business. Juggling restoration and building work with odd jobs, they eventually opened a holiday centre for young diabetics. With the birth of their two sons their dream should have been complete, but Jacquie had become obsessed with the business-working and partying for ... Read More
Binding: P
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780330390460ISBN:0330390465
Description: New. Duke of Egypt is the story of the love between Joseph Plato, a gypsy, and Lucie, a Dutch horse-breeder. Lucie is tied to the farm; for Joseph, the whole of Europe is his home. Each spring Joseph sets out in the hope of catching up with his scattered and constantly moving relatives. He returns in the autumn to tell an enraptured Lucie of his travels; and as he relates the events of his summers to her, the strange story of his ancestors-the displaced and marginalized people of Europe-is ... Read More
Binding: P
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781854332868ISBN:1854332864
Description: "Open any newspaper today and there will almost certainly be an article relating to standards of literacy and numeracy in schools, school league tables, the National Curriculum and national testing. What is national testing for? How did the present system develop? What is the nature of the tests and how are children assessed at the three Key Stages of 7, 11 and 14? This authoritative and thought-provoking book draws on the author's extensive experience of both developing and evaluating the ... Read More
Edition: Revised edition
Binding: P
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781853754463ISBN:1853754463
Description: Despite its bleak title, Doom is William Gerhardie's most wildly funny novel. It is the story of Frank Dickin, an impoverished young novelist, and his involvement, on the one hand, with an eccentric family of Russian émigrés-in particular, their beautiful daughter Eva-and, on the other, with an all-powerful newspaper magnate, Lord Ottercove, who takes Dickin on as a lost cause. This irrepressible comic potpourri also involves a mad English lord who is bent on destroying the world, and with an ... Read More
